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The Ballad of Ginger and Clyde

 @copyright 2020/Mike Consol When marijuana was legalized for medical and recreational purposes, my brother Conor got interested in the revenue potential, then he got sister Ginger interested and they agree to go into business together. They raised some money from friends to get started, and before long the business got busy and profitable, so other family members joined in, including sister Amelia and parents Liam and Freya — and me, who my parents named Patrick, in the great Irish tradition.   I was sporting an accounting degree from St. Bonaventure so, among assorted other duties, I kept a very sharp and disciplined eye on the financials. We were a highly regulated operation, and everything ran pretty much mechanically, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day of the week.   Each morning Ginger would show up dressed in her hallmark miniskirt, heels and Wonder Bra. Ginger was basically the hostess, greeting people as they arrived and rattling off any new smokable, drinkable, edible or topica